etnies GvR Results
photos: Andrew Miller, Joe Carter
Words: Joe Carter
Video: Kurt Narmore

The first ever etnies Goofy vs. Regular event went down in the history books as one of the best and well built contest ever to grace the slopes of Bear Mtn.  Luckily we got a break in the crazy weather for the event with sun for most of the day followed by a little bit of clouds coming in late bringing some snow then turning to rain when the finals ended. Bear mountain killed it as always setting up a really fun course for the two teams on goldrush starting with a triple jump line, kinked rail, staircase ollie straight to the tex down rail right in front of the judges booth.  The bottom scene consisted of a tube gap jam with  the biggest hip socal has ever seen and JP Walkers signature wall ride that was unveiled that day.Heavy hitters showed up for both the regular and goofy squads so everybody knew the level of riding was going be turned up for a chance at a piece of that 50,000 dollar purse and to settle the battle of the stances. Not to mention the starting five on the both sides got a extra grand for just showing up.  Jon Stouffer from Fuel team headed up as team Caption for the Goofy side while TWS editor Kurt Hoy maned things for left foot foward Regular squad.  The day started off bright and early with open qualifiers followed by qualifiers where every rider was pushing it to make into one of the two fifteen person teams for the final battle of GvR.  After those two rounds a coin toss between team captains went down and goofy won deciding to go first while the weather was still ok hope the worst storm would drop right as the regulars went.

As for some of the moves that went down in finals I would have to say that Dave Fortin took the cake for being the most gnarly guy there. He was the only person to send it over the whole entire hip popping of the toes with frontside sevens, nines, and a ten-eighty not exactly stomping but he took it up a level for sure. For the goofy riders some of the people that were impressive as always were Harrison Gordon with solid jumping and sometimes taking a different approach at the hip putting down cripplers with sick stinkbug grabs on the landing of the hip. Louie Vito killing it all day on every jump with sick back seven nosegrabs and tweaking the shit out of his huge airs on the hip. Chris Bradshaw, steezy and always fun to see. Tyler Flannigan threw down all day, falling only once all day. Jonas Michilot and Nick Dirks were seen cruising together all day with both of them shredding really well. Bear team rider Simon Chamberlain pulled out a really sick back lip on the new JP Walker feature with the smooth style he is known for. Then for the regular fellas Austin Smith was consistent all day with really clean back sevens on lock and good tweaks with every grab. Erich Dummer was riding strong all day blastin the hip. Bear local Johnny Miller throwing down backside 9's on the jump then sending backside airs one the hip. Keegan Valaika oozing with style and changing up his runs hitting all the features available. Robbie Walker spinning his way onto the top five. Thirtytwo's Stian Solberg riding well with powerful frontside 7's and 9's on the third jump and some of the biggest and smoothest backside airs on the hip. It was no surprise that Ride's Juuso Laivisto walked away with the MVP for regular footers with some of the cleanest spins on all the jumps and all day helping the Regular claim the top spot!No better way to end a event but with free beer for everyone involved and Ghostface Killa of Wutang performing under a down pour of rain to a huge crowd of screaming fans.

Overall I think I can speak for everyone that was able to be there that we are all happy to see thirtytwo and etnies take the Goofy vs. Regular event to the snow and hopefully we will see this every year from now on. Big thanks to Brian Cook and everyone from Thirtytwo and Etnies, Fuel TV, Transworld, Lost Energy, Zumiez and most the people and park staff at Bear mountain resort for making such a rad contest.


Riders:
Robbie Walker, Desiree Melacon, Joe Sexton, Corey Cronk, JP Walker, Dave Fortin, Jusso Lavisto, Scotty Vine, Eric Drummer, Keegan Valaika, Bev V,  Stian Soleberg. Kimmy Fasini, Zach Hale, Harrison Gordon, Nick Dirks, Jonas Michlot, Alex Sherman, Simon Chamberlain, Corey Noble, Chris Bradshaw, Louie Vito, Ryan Thompson, Cody Boan, Forrest Balley, Siguard Haga, Clayton Shoemarker, Gabi Viteri and more

GvR Results:
Total Weekend Prize Purse – $50,000

Regular Team:
1. Team MVP Jusso Lavisto – $9,000
2. Keegan Valaika – $4,500
3. Stian Solberg – $2,000
4. Erich Dummer – $1,750
5. *Robbie Walker – $2,500
6. *Austin Smith – $2,000
7. Dave Fortin – $1,000
8. Scott Vine – $1,000
9. *Markku Koski – $2,000
10. Corey Cronk – $1,000
11. Corey Noble – $1,000
12. *JP Walker – $2,000
13. *Joe Sexton – $2,000
14. Beverly Vuilleumier – $1,000
15. Desiree Melachon – $1,000

Goofy Team:
1. *Louie Vito – $1,750
2. Forrest Bailey – $750
3. Clayton Shoemaker – $750
4. Tyler Flanagan – $750
5. Jonas Michilot – $750
6. *Nick Dirks – $1,750
7. *Simon Chamberlain – $1,750
8. Siguard Haga – $750
9. Alex Sherman – $750
10. Cody Boan – $750
11. Kimmy Fasani – $750
12. Harrison Gordon – $750
13. *Ryan Thompson – $1,750
14. Gabi Viteri – $750
15. *Chris Bradshaw – $1,750

The * symbolizes the five riders selected by the team captain for the final team. Each of these team riders receives an automatic $1,000 going into the event.

Click Below for GvR Video:

- Regular vs. Goofy.... Which side do you stand on?

This is was the top part of Goldrush.  Three hits a kink rail and a stair ollie to tex's down rail on the side of the third hit.

- Keegan Valaika starting off the qualifiers on the tube jam with a stylish front three.




- I read Bear sold out tickets for the day and over 7,000 people were attendance. Pretty insane!




- Dave Fortin earning his spot in the fianls by sending a 1080 over the whole hip in qualifiers.... Second attempt he cased and his back binding blew up and off his board.




- The main man over at TWS filmer department Joe Carlino and the Dingo




- Being on night park staff Kirk Kaufmann help build these jumps the night before.  His efforts and late nights paid off.  Kirk poking a stylish front three.




- Two options Tube or Hip.  Corey Noble opting for a tubular time floating a backside 180




- The King of Bear - Chris Bradshaw pre-qualified in the goofy staring five....son




- Scotty Vine taking advantage of the blue skies before the storm rolled in



- Pretty much the whole Omatic crew was up at bear for the event.  Team member Louie Vito scoring points for the goofy side.




-  Two goofy dudes...Alex Sherman and Jonas Michlot




- Harrison Gordon putting in the extra tweak for the goofy side




- Who let these two fools in? Jamotron and Kurt stoked on everything



- Goofy Team Capitan John Stouffer from Fuel TV





- Dispite rocking the blue colors of the regular team 32's Brian Cook was up top helping Jon coach the Goofy side




- Nick Dirk in the running for highest air of day





- Nick was killing it all day. This kid is an amazing snowboarder looking forward to his part in TWS new movie "these days"




- Marrku Koski backside five over the second jump




- After open qualifiers and qualifiers 15 rider from each side went one for the final showdown. Here's who made it through.




- The Capitan Coin off- Jon Stouffer and Kurt Hoy facing off for the final round in who rider first.




- A Stepchild chairlift. Simon, JP, and Stian Soleberg




- Joe Carter and Simon





-  Team Goofy decided to ride first while the weather was still good.  Nick Dirks was for sure Goofy MVP in my book. Huge back three japan.




- Simon backlip on the JP Walker wall ride




- The finals were so heated Jared Johson wanted to take to it to next level with a Lost Shotgun.  I bet the burp after that was juicy.




- Robbie Walker working the jumps in the final Regular round.




- Dave Fortin was sending the hip every run all day.  After a board change Dave launches a huge 900 in some serious flat light in Regular finals.




- Dave Fortin... I'm sure you will be seeing more of this guy




- Stian Solberg poking off the hip




- Stian thumbs up for all the Regular riders




- Scotty Vine was another force to be reckoned with on the Regular side.  He was throwing double back flips all day.  Here front lippin the whole JP wall ride.




- Austin Smith pretty much swept the TWS awards last month.  He made it down to bear to support the regular side in the battle.




- JP all smiles all day!




- JP taking his turn on the hip in Regular finals




- Joe Sexton is crazy. All day in sun, rain and snow he wasn't wearing gloves, goggles or sun glasses.  Here Joe taking a interesting approach to the hip and gapping the two lips from the side.




- Jusso Lasvisto undoubtedly was crushing all the jumps switch, regular, front and backside.



- JP and Joe watching and cheering on the rest of the regular riders during their final run.




- Wutang'sGhostface Killa




- Not to familiar with the rap scene...I felt pretty stupid asking somebody which one was Ghost face.




- Ghostface and some ladies...I totally blew on the Blondie flashing the crowd shot.... Sorry guys...




- Goofy team




- Regular team L-R. Kurt Hoy, Robbie Walker, Desiree Melacon, Joe Sexton, Etines Pierre Andre, Corey Cronk, JP Walker, Dave Fortin, Jusso Lavisto, Scotty Vine, Eric Drummer, Keegan Valaika, Bev V and Stian Soleberg.



- Jusso Laivisto taking 1st place and best Over all on the Regular side

Sunday, February 24th 2008 @ 05:44 PM.
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